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posted: October 31st, 2010 |
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This page begins with October 2nd and a trip to Jindai Botanical Garden. The next adventure is on October 8th and a trip to Showa-Kinen Park. That's all there is on this page. Click on any thumbnail to begin.
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| Begin October 2nd |
On October 2nd Kazuya and I went to Jindai Botanical Garden again on our bicycles. The photos in this row were all taken in the greenhouse. The first and 2nd photos show an Amazon Basin Water Lily (Victoria cruziana). The 2nd shot is 3 exposure bracketed images which have been tone-mapped with Photomatix Pro's Tone Compressor option. The 3rd image is also a water lily - a blue flowered type.
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Here is a pink-flowered water lily - the final shot in the greenhouse. The next image is a Cymbidium nipponicum aka C. macrorhizon - a saprophyte on various tree roots. You saw some images of this last month too, but this image has much better flowers than last month's examples. The 3rd shot shows a blue flower and a Hummingbird Hawk Moth (Macroglossum sp.). Kazuya caught this perfectly.
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Here are 2 shots of Cortaderia selloana - Pampas Grass - photographed from the opposite side of the images shown last month.
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| End October 2nd, Begin October 8th |
On Saturday, October 8th, we took a trip out to Showa-Kinen Park, in Nishi-Tachikawa. Our main purpose was to catch the Cosmos flowers. The first shot here is a wood and bamboo sculpture of a boy catching a fish. The 2nd shot is 2 human hands making a heart shape with the thumbs. The Kin-moku-sei (Osmanthus fragrans var. aurantiacus) is at it's peak now - this is a VERY fragrant smelling flower. You can smell it all over the place for the past week or so.
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Here are 3 additional shots of Kin-moku-sei (Osmanthus fragrans var. aurantiacus). Note the center shot - a very interesting flower.
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The first shot here is an unbelievably red/pink water lily in a pond. This shot is 3 exposure bracketed images which have been tone-mapped with Photomatix Pro's Tone Compressor option, but it looked unreal even before being enhanced. Then we went to the Cosmos field. These next 2 shots were taken in the yellow garden.
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There was not much variety in the yellow Cosmos garden, so we hiked across to the other gardens pretty quickly. The first shot is an overview of a small area and the next 2 shots are close-ups of single flowers - a light red colored one and a pink colored one.
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Here is a close up of a red Cosmos sp. flower, a close-up of a "Happy Ring" cultivar and a close-up of a pink flowered one with a bee on it.
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Here are 3 overview shots of small areas of Cosmos sp.
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Here is an overview shot and then 2 close-up shots.
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A close-up shot, a very nice shot by Kazuya and then one more close-up shot.
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Here is another shot of the "Happy Ring" cultivar. Then we walked over to the famous Cosmos Hill. Unfortunately the hill was only at about 20% of peak blooming, but it was pretty anyway. The 3rd shot is 2 shots stitched together to make a panorama.
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Here is a row with 3 panoramas - each image is 2 photos which have been stitched together.
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The first 2 shots are the final 2 images of Cosmos sp. at the Cosmos Hill. The 3rd shot was taken in the "Japanese Garden" portion of Showa-Kinen Park. As you can see, fall colors are just barely beginning to show up.
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After the Japanese Garden we walked over to another flower area to see the Cleome hassleriana - a very weird flower.
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Here are 2 shots of Cleome hassleriana and then an image of some pink and orange Cosmos sp. flowers - there were not any orange flowered ones any other place which we noticed.
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Here is an orange colored Cosmos sp. flower with some kind of moth on it. We saw this beautiful example of a True Fir cone from a bridge on our way out of the park via the Tachikawa Gate. Here is a very large fountain - 2 shots stitched together to make a panorama.
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On the road which leads into/out of the park at the Tachikawa Gate there are may Ginkgo trees - these 2 shots show you some Ginkgo biloba fruits.
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| End October 8th, End Page 1 |
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